Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British colonies in the Caribbean Sea-13 islands and numberless neighboring islets that together form the palmiest tropical haven short of Bali Ha'i-last week ran off their first election as a federation headed for nationhood and independence. The voters picked 45 members for a House of Representatives; Her Majesty's Governor General, Lord Hailes, will now name the 19-member Senate. Princess Margaret will inaugurate the legislature April 22 in the new capital, Trinidad's Port of Spain-and The West Indies will be in business...
Died. Francisco Duran-Reynals, 58, faculty member at Yale Medical School, one of the first cancer researchers to theorize that the disease may be caused by viruses; of cancer of the brain; in New Haven, Conn...
...hurry back to the hotel and get the first returns." On drinking vodka: "Now I know why they got their Sputniks up first. I'm surprised the whole country didn't go straight up years ago." On the censorship: "The Soviet censor read all my jokes. I haven't seen him since. I understand he is doing my act in Leningrad...
KARL ROBINSON New Haven, Conn...
...works: "I get up each day, and I have no idea of what I'm going to do. I'm very worried. Then I work. Then I go to bed and still worry and say I haven't worked enough. It's always the same...